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Overview of the Death Penalty

This document provides an overview of the death penalty, including its definition, history, use around the world particularly in the USA and Iran, issues of discrimination, pros and cons, and conclusions. It discusses how the death penalty originated in the 18th century BC and was typically carried out by hanging. While some countries and US states still use the death penalty, it is considered a violation of human rights by some. There are arguments that it provides closure for families but risks executing innocent people.

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Overview of the Death Penalty

This document provides an overview of the death penalty, including its definition, history, use around the world particularly in the USA and Iran, issues of discrimination, pros and cons, and conclusions. It discusses how the death penalty originated in the 18th century BC and was typically carried out by hanging. While some countries and US states still use the death penalty, it is considered a violation of human rights by some. There are arguments that it provides closure for families but risks executing innocent people.

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Death Penalty

Emanuel Bozic
Outline
• Definition
• History
• Death penalty around the world
• USA
• Iran
• Discrimination
• Pros & cons
• Conclusion
• Sources
• Capital punsihment, death sentence, execution

• Putting sentenced person to death

Definitio • Types

n • Lethal injection
• Gas chamber
• Electrocution
• Hanging
• Crucifixion
History
• First established
• Eighteenth Century B.C.
• Hanging usual method
• Britain influenced America
• Historical Figures
• Jesus
• Marie Antoinette
• Benito Mussolini
• Mata Hari
Death penalty around the world
• 1526 executions since 1970
• Decision of state
• Capital punishment is a legal penalty
• Used by 28 states

USA • Daniel Lewis Lee executed on July 14,


2020
• Comitted murder
• Lethal injection
• Alabama highest per capita rate of death
sentences
Iran
• Legal penalty

• Sentenced for commiting rape, murder, pedophillia and many more

• 80% for drug traffickers

• Execution of minors
Discrimination
• Mentally ill murderers
• No good lawyer = more death penalty
• Death sentence 4 x higher
• White victim VS black victim
• Death sentence 11 x higher
• Blacks kill whites VS whites kill blacks
• Closure to the victim‘s family

Pros & • Solution for overpopulation in


prison system

cons • Parole or escape of prisoner


• Another chance to kill
• Innocent wrongly executed

Pros & • Killing is wrong

cons • Violation of international human


rights laws
• Criminal commits crime
punishment should equal the
crime

Conclusion • Humanely killed

• Can‘t escape
Sources
• https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Punishment
• https://whyy.org/articles/rebirth-for-delaware-death-penalty/
• https://www.untvweb.com/news/dela-rosa-renews-call-for-death-penalty-in-ph-amid-talks-of-sanchez-release/
• https://www.untvweb.com/news/dela-rosa-renews-call-for-death-penalty-in-ph-amid-talks-of-sanchez-release/
• https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/people/reference/hammurabi/
• https://theconversation.com/why-the-fight-for-racial-justice-in-the-us-requires-the-abolition-of-the-death-penalty
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• https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions/executions-overview
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your attention!

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